“What is going on there? Rowing boats with pictures on the Olympic lake? Large formats! Painted fireworks.
Don’t you hear bells? What’s going on over there? Can I have your binoculars?
What do you see? I don’t know, three boats, three letters.
I don’t understand. Oh, now they’re rowing in a different order!
And there: a raven! There’s a raven on the boat. They’re getting bigger and bigger…”
Eight artists from different disciplines are realising an interdisciplinary art happening on rowing boats and partly from the shore. Under a title that arouses curiosity and at the same time ironically questions the art system with its biennialisation and sensationalism. “Die erste Münchner See-Triennale für Performance-Kunst” (“The First Munich Lake Triennial for Performance Art”) is, of course, a one-off event, not a ‘real’ triennial.
The event does not just use the park as a backdrop, but brings it into the public consciousness as a cultural and recreational landscape and integrates it – because the whole complex is itself an artistic concept, an ideal space in itself with lake and mountain and the world-famous roof architecture of the stadium.
A project by
Nikolai Vogel
With the artists
Judith Egger, Silke Markefka, Wolfgang Stehle, Anja Uhlig, Katharina Weishäupl, Thomas Winkler and Stefan Wischnewski
Nikolai Vogel, born in 1971 in Munich, lives and works in Munich.
